Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Heavy Sigh

So I’m at a party last Saturday night, and this reoccurring thing happens. I’m mingling and talking about dating girls, and the person I’m talking to is like, “Oh, you’re queer?! What’s your type? (I start to stammer, and said person doesn’t actually let me think about this long enough to answer the question.) He asks if I have an age preference; yes, I tell him. I don’t want to date anyone under 27 or 28. He completely ignores this and says, “What if it’s not dating? She’s 25, but she really just wants to have a lot of sex.” He whips out his phone and starts showing me pictures of his best friend, who admittedly is cute, but I know nothing about this girl, and this guy knows nothing about me. He leaps gaily (see what I did there?) forward and says, “I’m going to give you her number.” “No,” I say, confidently. “I’d be pissed if someone gave out my number without my permission.” “Okay!” he says, and calls her to ask her permission. After a minute of talking to her, he hands the phone to me so I have to have an awkward conversation with a stranger on the phone in the middle of a party. No pressure or anything.

What makes me so frustrated about this scenario isn’t the fact that he didn’t give me time to answer him or that he basically set us up without really waiting for my consent OR her consent; it’s that he just assumed that I would be a good match for this girl just because we both happen to be into women. What the fuck is that? Can you imagine if you were at a party and someone said to you, “Oh, hey -- you’re straight! I know this other straight person! You guys would be PERFECT together!”